Robert Wright

Robert Wright (20 November 1752-7 September 1826) was a US Senator from Maryland from 19 November 1801 to 12 November 1806 (succeeding William Hindman and preceding Philip Reed), Governor of Maryland from 12 November 1806 to 9 June 1809 (succeeding Robert Bowie and preceding Edward Lloyd), a member of the US House of Representatives from Maryland's 7th district from 1810 to 1817 (succeeding John Brown and preceding Philip Reed) and from 1821 to 1823 (succeeding Stevenson Archer and preceding William Hayward, Jr.). He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Robert Wright was born in Chestertown, Maryland in 1752, and he was admitted to the bar in 1773. He commenced practice in his hometown, and he served in the militia during the American Revolutionary War. Wright then served in the House of Delegates from 1784 to 1786 and as a member of the State Senate in 1801, and he served in the US Senate from 1801 to 1806 and as Governor from 1806 to 1809. He then served in the US House of Representatives from 1810 to 1817 and from 1821 to 1823, and he died in 1826.